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Neurophilosophy (5,782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of localization of function is the radio repairman thought experiment. In this thought experiment, a radio repairman opens up a radio and rips out a tube

Artificial brain (1,307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

understand how the human brain works, known as cognitive neuroscience. A thought experiment in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, demonstrating that it

Linda Zagzebski (1,298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on questions of epistemic value including the "espresso machine" thought experiment (a predecessor to the swamping problem) as a counter to reliabilism

Reliabilism (1,185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

argument against philosophical skepticism, such as the brain in a vat thought experiment. Process reliabilism is a form of epistemic externalism. A broadly

The Chinese Room (1,197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Portsmouth in 2007, and is named after John Searle's Chinese room thought experiment. In August 2018, it became a subsidiary of Sumo Digital. Thechineseroom's

Judith Jarvis Thomson (1,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion. She is credited

Joule expansion (2,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gas fills the whole container. The Joule expansion, treated as a thought experiment involving ideal gases, is a useful exercise in classical thermodynamics

Observer effect (physics) (1,860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

object still experiences a change (leading to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment). This effect can be found in many domains of physics, but can usually

Digital Morse theory (708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tank thought experiment: Counting islands as the water level changes The essential insight of continuous Morse theory can be intuited by a thought experiment

Dutch book (939 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(regardless of the outcome being bet on). It is generally used as a thought experiment to motivate Von Neumann–Morgenstern axioms or the axioms of probability

List of Playboy Playmates of 1964 (1,050 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

August 2, 2010. The Thought Experiment (March 2010). "Valentine Vixen — Nancy Jo Hooper, Miss February 1964 « The Thought Experiment". Retrieved January

Roderick Chisholm (2,424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

implication for the "reconstructed ship" that is often a part of the thought experiment. If every single part of the original ship were saved perfectly, so

Philosophy of color (1,848 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is a thought experiment underpinning the knowledge argument. It was an argument to counter color realism and more broadly physicalism. The thought experiment

The Brick Moon (379 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hypothetical artificial object which is projected from a mountain, as a thought experiment to explain why natural satellites move as they do). "The Brick Moon"

The Matrix (franchise) (7,462 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

among others the dilemma of choice vs. control, the brain in a vat thought experiment, messianism, and the concepts of interdependency and love. Influences

Wonder en is gheen Wonder (231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematician and engineer Simon Stevin's commentary to his famous thought experiment: even if something looks strange, it can still have a naturalistic

David Chalmers (2,922 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

problem of consciousness, and for popularizing the philosophical zombie thought experiment. He and David Bourget cofounded PhilPapers, a database of journal

Robinson Crusoe economy (2,904 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the 1719 novel of the same name authored by Daniel Defoe. As a thought experiment in economics, many international trade economists have found this

Turing test (12,308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

would comment on the Turing test in his Chinese room argument, a thought experiment that stipulates that a machine cannot have a "mind", "understanding"

Philosophical Investigations (4,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

presupposes our ability to use it. He first asks the reader to perform a thought experiment: come up with a definition of the word "game". While this may at first

Direct reference theory (903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

using the formal apparatus of possible worlds. The possible worlds thought-experiment first takes the subject, and then tries to imagine the subject in

Radical translation (873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Radical translation is a thought experiment in Word and Object, a major philosophical work from American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. It is used

Patrick Hayden (scientist) (327 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is revealed in the Hawking radiation; called the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment, turned out to be compatible with the black hole complementarity hypothesis

Singlet state (1,637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Along with Podolsky and Rosen, Einstein proposed the EPR paradox thought experiment to help define his concerns with what he viewed as the non-locality

Prisoner's dilemma (8,426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The prisoner's dilemma is a game theory thought experiment that involves two rational agents, each of whom can cooperate for mutual benefit or betray their

Zombie Blues (231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

singer of the band. Its name comes from Chalmers' philosophical zombie thought experiment—a hypothetical creature that looks like humans but lacks consciousness

H. J. McCloskey (299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Philosophy in 1978. McCloskey is known for his sheriff scenario, a thought experiment he used to criticize "extreme" utilitarianism, or what later came

Ex Machina (film) (3,972 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

test, the film references the Chinese room thought experiment, as well as Mary's room, a thought experiment about a scientist who has studied, but never

Eshelby's inclusion (278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first devised by John D. Eshelby in 1957. Eshelby started with a thought experiment on the possible stress, strain, and displacement fields in a linear

Eliminative materialism (7,713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ineffable. They are "intrinsic" and "simple" or "unanalyzable." The first thought experiment Dennett uses to demonstrate that qualia lack the listed necessary

Jocelyn Parr (writer) (354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is clearly a novel of ideas, but it never reads like a treatise or thought experiment, though in a sense it is. Parr was nominated for the Governor General's

Douglas SASSTO (1,494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such an engine existed, the RS-25, using a RS-25-powered S-IVB as a thought experiment to demonstrate the real-world feasibility of SSTO launchers. This

Antitheism (1,099 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proposed an altered definition of the word antitheism as part of a thought experiment: He imagines what arguments for the existence of an evil god would

List of Playboy Playmates of 1958 (637 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2017. "Valentine Vixen: Cheryl Kubert, Miss February 1958". The Thought Experiment. "Playmate data". Retrieved October 6, 2017. Zahra Norbo at Playboy

The Braindead Megaphone (185 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"The Great Divider" "Thought Experiment" (originally published as "Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment" in Take My Advice, edited

Reversal test (851 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is an important causal factor in the initial judgement. A similar thought experiment in regards to dampening traumatic memories was described by Adam J

Schrödingers katt (271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

NRK1 from 1990 to 2016. The program, named after a quantum mechanics thought experiment by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, was produced by NRK Trøndelag

Hollow Earth (5,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

inner-Earth civilization, but that is not true. Instead, he did a thought experiment of an object dropped into a hole drilled through the center, unrelated

Howard Robinson (505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

independently and in the same year as Frank Jackson, but Robinson's thought experiment involves sounds rather than colors. He is Professor of Philosophy

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (2,622 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

concept involved building a tiny, swallowable surgical robot. As a thought experiment, he proposed developing a set of one-quarter-scale manipulator hands

Eugene Wigner (5,098 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

questions about the theory of quantum mechanics, Wigner developed a thought experiment (later called Wigner's Friend paradox) to illustrate his belief that

Early modern philosophy (6,542 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Thought Experiment | Blog of the APA. Retrieved 18 April 2021, from https://blog.apaonline.org/2020/10/21/early-modern-philosophy-a-perverse-thought-experiment/

Flesh Without Blood (814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Flesh Without Blood" is named Rococo Basilisk, a reference to the thought experiment Roko's basilisk and the Rococo art movement. Grimes said that the

Steven Engel (2,573 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

DOJ would not charge Trump with a crime, making the memo akin to a "thought experiment." In May 2019, Engel issued an opinion concluding that the former

Hitchens's razor (1,077 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Demon-Haunted World – 1995 book by Carl Sagan Evil God Challenge – Thought experiment in philosophyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

Molecular demon (1,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

thermodynamics. The difference between biological molecular demons and the thought experiment of Maxwell's demon is the latter's apparent violation of the second

Humanoid (1,904 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its language would have sounded somewhat like bird song. Russell's thought experiment has been met with criticism from other paleontologists since the 1980s

Ball (disambiguation) (645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of a sphere Ball of wax example, also known as the wax argument, a thought experiment by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy Boule de

Wax (1,861 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

melting point Wax acid Wax argument or the "ball of wax example", is a thought experiment originally articulated by Renė Descartes. Wilhelm Riemenschneider1

Kerolos Bahgat (1,910 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

writing in the field of psychology, as portrayed in his book The Thought Experiment for Mama's Boy, among many others. His works were published by a number

John Stewart Bell (3,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction Bell adopted and promoted a relativistic thought experiment which became widely known as Bell's spaceship paradox. Bell died unexpectedly

Zeno machine (868 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

animation of an infinite time Turing machine based on the Thomson's lamp thought experiment. A cell alternates between 0{\displaystyle 0} and 1{\displaystyle

Quantum nanoscience (818 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

simultaneously exist in two states. The classic description is the thought experiment of Schroedinger’s Cat. In this gedanken experiment, the cat can be

Office of Legal Counsel (2,626 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

DOJ would not charge Trump with a crime, making the memo akin to a "thought experiment." In September 2019, Engel authored an OLC opinion that the Justice

Justice and the Market (2,497 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

scale. 20th century philosopher John Rawls attempted to create a thought experiment that would allow for the consideration of a societal design that is

Quantum weirdness (370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

paradox; quantum superposition, presented in dramatic form in the thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat; the uncertainty principle; wave–particle

Changing places (91 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a 2002 jazz album by Tord Gustavsen Changing Places (thought experiment), a thought experiment by Max Velmans Changing Places (campaign), a British consortium

Quantum superposition (5,777 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

device ("SQUID") has been linked to the theme of the "cat state" thought experiment. By use of very low temperatures, very fine experimental arrangements

AI takeover in popular culture (5,020 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Paperclips was inspired by philosopher Nick Bostrom's paperclip maximizer thought experiment. The user plays an AI tasked to create paperclips; the game begins

Australian philosophy (1,729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prominent among critics of materialism. Frank Jackson's influential thought experiment "What Mary knew" imagines a scientist who, restricted to seeing black

Regress argument (epistemology) (1,742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Infinite regress – Philosophical problem Münchhausen trilemma – A thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Plato's

James F. Thomson (philosopher) (657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

disprove the possibility of supertasks, he introduced Thomson's lamp, a thought experiment similar to Zeno's paradoxes. This problem involves the mathematical

Exhalation (short story) (490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction described it as "limpid" and an "elegant thought experiment". The California Sunday Magazine praised it as an "inventive meditation

Anders Sandberg (969 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2018. Zhang, Sarah (2 August 2018). "Blueberry Earth: The Delicious Thought Experiment That's Roiling Planetary Scientists". The Atlantic. Retrieved 4 November

Cortical homunculus (1,385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at a single glance. Penfield first conceived of his homunculi as a thought experiment, and went so far as to envision an imaginary world in which the homunculi

The Conscious Mind (2,501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

problem of other minds is evidence of this. Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment Mary's Room demonstrates a similar point. Upon seeing red, Mary gains

Tiny Colour Movies (167 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Automobiles" "A Peripheral Character" "Shadow City" "Interlude" "Thought Experiment" "Hand-Held Skies" John Foxx – All instruments Dallas Simpson – Mastering

Relative velocity (1,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assumptions about how clocks and rulers behave. (See The train-and-platform thought experiment.) To recognize that this classical model of relative motion violates

Galilean invariance (1,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that fall freely in a gravitational field. According to Einstein's thought experiment, a man in such a cabin experiences (to a good approximation) no gravity

Transverse wave (1,660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of moving back and forth. It may help understanding to revisit the thought experiment with a taut string mentioned above. Notice that you can also launch

Jan Deckers (1,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

debate on abortion, Deckers has engaged with Judith Jarvis Thomson's thought experiment of the violinist. In an article with the title 'The right to life

Red pill and blue pill (2,988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

machine", the concept of a simulated reality and the brain in a vat thought experiment. The Wachowskis asked star Keanu Reeves to read three books before

Atom localization (794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

optics with increasing precision. This field finds its origins in the thought experiment by Werner Heisenberg called Heisenberg's microscope, which is commonly

Local reference frame (325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

centered on the laboratory in which the experiment (either real or thought experiment) is done. This is the reference frame in which the laboratory is at

Thinks ... (508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mouthpieces. Literary website Bookish Thoughts called Thinks... "a thought experiment on the nature of consciousness" even as it cautioned readers about

Simulacrum (2,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Collodi's Pinocchio – A puppet that comes to life. Experience machine - A thought experiment put forward by Robert Nozick in his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia

The Collapsing Empire (680 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reviewer enjoyed Scalzi's space opera and summarized the story as a "thought experiment about the fall of civilization." As of 2017, the TV rights to The

Cosmic censorship hypothesis (1,567 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

value, outside of which the horizon would disappear. The following thought experiment is reproduced from Hartle's Gravity: Imagine specifically trying to

Schrödinger–Newton equation (3,508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

given in our universe (see the referenced discussion about a similar thought experiment proposed by Eppley & Hannah). Nonlinear Schrödinger equation Semiclassical

Medium (website) (4,020 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

site as having "undergone countless pivots", becoming "an endless thought experiment into what publishing on the internet could look like". In January

Allen Steele (934 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1997–2004 Steele, Allen M. (September 2014). "Tomorrow Through the Past". Thought Experiment. Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (9): 10–16. Arkwright Sakers, Don (April

Nick Fudge (836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

on the eve of his graduate show, an act inspired by a Duchampian thought-experiment which asked "what if an artist just disappeared?" Shortly thereafter

Proofs and Refutations (707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the following list of stages: Primitive conjecture. Proof (a rough thought-experiment or argument, decomposing the primitive conjecture into subconjectures)

Proofs and Refutations (707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the following list of stages: Primitive conjecture. Proof (a rough thought-experiment or argument, decomposing the primitive conjecture into subconjectures)

Steven Landsburg (1,418 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

faculty at the University of Rochester claimed that Landsburg's "thought experiment" was offensive and potentially dangerous, in that it called into question

Tomb of Horrors (2,646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

foreword: "The dungeon of the demi-lich Acererak was, for Gary, a kind of thought experiment: If an undead sorcerer really wanted to keep his tomb from being plundered

René Descartes (15,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2018 interview with Tyler Cowen, Agnes Callard described Descartes' thought experiment in the Meditations, where he encouraged a complete, systematic doubting

Free fall (2,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

close to the Earth and orbiting objects is best illustrated by the thought experiment, Newton's cannonball. The motion of two objects moving radially towards

Physical object (1,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Non-physical entity Physical model Rigid body Ship of Theseus, a thought experiment about an object's identity over time Hornborg, Alf (July 23, 2021)

Basilisk (disambiguation) (202 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

system in the David Weber novel On Basilisk Station Roko's basilisk, a thought experiment originating on the LessWrong blog Basilisk (cannon) HMAS Basilisk

Wax (disambiguation) (177 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

video editor Hair wax, a type of hairstyling product Wax argument, thought experiment Wax gourd, a large Asian fruit WAXX, an American radio station This

Barr letter (4,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Barr had never considered charging Trump and likened the memo to a "thought experiment"; the Department of Justice released the full memo the following week

The Six Million Dollar Mon (521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A.V. Club enjoyed the episode and gave it an A−. Ship of Theseus, thought experiment involving rebuilding an object from discarded parts Handlen, Zack

Dead cat (109 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a series of cartoons about dead cats Schrödinger's cat, a physics thought experiment involving the possibility of a dead cat This disambiguation page lists

The Egg (Weir short story) (639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

story into an animated video. Original position, a philosophical thought experiment Open individualism Advaita Vedanta Hiranyagarbha Panpsychism Cosmic

Inverted spectrum (1,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Thought experiment

Connectivity theorems (1,674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the connectivity theorems. When deriving the summation theorems, a thought experiment was conducted that involved manipulating enzyme activities such that

Deontology (3,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(philosophy) – Sentences used to effect an action Plank of Carneades – Thought experiment proposed by Carneades of Cyrene Rule according to higher law – Belief

Football in Mexico (1,497 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Latin / o America. Springer. ISBN 9781137518002. Fellerath, David. "A thought experiment: What would NASL's split-season plan look like this season?". Indy

Robin Hanson (1,247 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tolentino described Hanson's blog post as a "flippantly dehumanizing thought experiment". A 2003 article in Fortune examined Hanson's work, noting, among

Nuclear cross section (755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

particular set of particles (usually viewed as a "beam and target" thought experiment where one particle or nucleus is the "target", which is typically

Cobalt bomb (3,238 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

thermonuclear weapon of the size postulated by Leo Szilard's "cobalt bomb" thought experiment by extrapolating from the effects of thermonuclear weapons of smaller

Mind uploading (6,505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

consciousness in brain simulations on the basis of the "fading qualia" thought experiment of David Chalmers. He then concludes: “If, as I argue above, a sufficiently

Turtles all the way down (3,055 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Matryoshka doll – Russian nested wooden toy Münchhausen trilemma – A thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Primum

Neurorobotics (2,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used to study simple ethical interactions, such as the classical thought experiment where there are more people than a life raft can hold, and someone

Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story (249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

film by director Jonathan Liebesman in 2000. Killing baby Hitler, a thought experiment in ethics Roald Dahl Fan's Page IMDb: Tales of the Unexpected: Genesis

Wonderful life theory (1,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Earth. It is these central ideas which prompt Gould to propose a thought experiment called "replaying the tape of life." Its central essence is this:

Post-capitalism (2,169 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2024-02-23. Hickel, Jason (September 23, 2020). "Degrowth and MMT: a thought experiment". jasonhickel.org. Retrieved July 11, 2023. MMT proposals align elegantly

Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story (249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

film by director Jonathan Liebesman in 2000. Killing baby Hitler, a thought experiment in ethics Roald Dahl Fan's Page IMDb: Tales of the Unexpected: Genesis

Connectivity theorems (1,674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the connectivity theorems. When deriving the summation theorems, a thought experiment was conducted that involved manipulating enzyme activities such that

Twin (disambiguation) (233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Peter J. Twin (born 1937), English nuclear physicist Twin paradox, a thought experiment Twin prime, a type of prime number Twin Range, a mountain range in

Western philosophy (11,340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from arguing over the first principles of human nature through the thought experiment of what the world would look like without society, a scenario referred

Unexpected hanging paradox (1,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Thought experiment in logic

NPC (meme) (2,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

List of Internet phenomena Philosophical zombie – a philosophical thought experiment that imagines a being which appears to display consciousness but is

The Sand Reckoner (1,888 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fill it. With these measurements, each grain of sand in Archimedes's thought-experiment would have been approximately 19 μm (0.019 mm) in diameter. Archimedes

The Root of All Evil? (1,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reject religion, Dawkins describes Bertrand Russell's celestial teapot thought experiment. In The Virus Of Faith Dawkins made a more emotional appeal. The programme

Hard problem of consciousness (11,637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

follows with necessity from physics). Levine illustrates this with a thought experiment: Suppose that humanity were to encounter an alien species, and suppose

Steven Pippin (1,369 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kucharek, Jan-Carlos (13 August 2020). "From bath-as-camera to camera-as-thought-experiment". www.ribaj.com. Retrieved 11 December 2023. "The Machines of Steven

Boltzmann (disambiguation) (91 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

to: 24712 Boltzmann, a main-belt asteroid the Boltzmann brain, a thought experiment Boltzmann constant Boltzmann (crater), an old lunar crater Boltzmann

University of Oxford (18,091 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

who formulated the Schrödinger equation and the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. Structural engineer Roma Agrawal, responsible for London's Shard

Stenonychosaurus (3,230 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

language would have sounded somewhat like bird song. However, Russell's thought experiment has been met with criticism from other paleontologists since the 1980s

Manna (4,020 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by their wives. Robert Nozick references "manna from heaven" in a thought experiment about distributive justice. In a modern botanical context, manna is

Satellite (6,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

possibility of an artificial satellite was Newton's cannonball, a thought experiment by Isaac Newton to explain the motion of natural satellites, in his

Elevator paradox (physics) (356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Thought experiment in physics

DeDe Lind (498 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"The Girls Next Door". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2009-12-17. The Thought Experiment (2010-06-16). "The Girls of Summer: DeDe Lind, Miss August 1967".

Strange loop (1,927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

strip – Non-orientable surface with one edge Münchhausen trilemma – A thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Ontological

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (1,846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

one of his allegories and drawing inspiration from his Floating Man thought experiment, but transforming the subject's sensory deprivation to social isolation

Subject and object (philosophy) (2,919 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

linguistics Concept Continuous predicate Donald Davidson's swamp man thought experiment (in "Knowing One Own's Mind", 1987 paper) Ethics and meta-ethics Hypostasis

Thomson's lamp (788 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The thought experiment concerns a lamp that is toggled on and off with increasing frequency.

Human Compatible (1,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tend to adopt so-called "common sense" moral values. In Russell's thought experiment about a geoengineering robot that "asphyxiates humanity to deacidify

Roko (206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Basilisk, a hypothetical future artificial intelligence posited in a thought experiment by LessWrong contributor Roko ROKO Construction, civil engineering

Newton's law of universal gravitation (3,709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trajectory is a conic section in the orbital plane Newton's cannonball – Thought experiment about gravity Newton's laws of motion – Laws in physics about force

Temperature (12,973 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deflectometry List of cities by average temperature Maxwell's demon – Thought experiment of 1867 Orders of magnitude (temperature) – Range of temperatures

Flux linkage (837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exists independently of the presence of the coil. Furthermore, in a thought experiment with a coil of N{\displaystyle N} turns, where each turn forms a loop

Heisenbug (1,395 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

schrödinbug or schroedinbug (named after Erwin Schrödinger and his thought experiment) is a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer

Lev Vaidman (714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at Saint Petersburg University (then Leningrad University). This thought experiment, subsequently conducted in the lab, is an example of interaction-free

Metaphilosophy (3,263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

counterfactuals (or subjunctive conditionals) that are specific to the thought experiment or example in question. A prominent question in metaphilosophy is

Millennium Falcon (4,128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Falcon on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki Millennium Falcon Notes: information for model builders How Fast is the Millennium Falcon?: a thought experiment

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US Forest Service. August 25, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022. "The thought experiment: What would happen if the supervolcano under Yellowstone erupted?"

Interest rate (4,268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proposed by an anonymous student of Greg Mankiw, though more as a thought experiment than a genuine proposal. Both the European Central Bank starting in

Paper clip (3,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assistant in Microsoft Office Universal Paperclips - a game based on a thought experiment where the user plays the role of an AI programmed to produce paperclips

Heinz dilemma (280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ethical thought experiment

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fiction Clarke, Arthur C. (12 August 2003). "The Space Elevator: 'Thought Experiment', or Key to the Universe? (Part 3)". The Space Elevator Reference

Bootstrapping (3,826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Münchhausen trilemma – A thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Neurathian

Space elevator (10,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

dramatically with height:Clarke, A.C. (1979). "The space elevator: 'thought experiment', or key to the universe?". Archived from the original on January

With great power comes great responsibility (2,764 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

James (March 20, 2019). "Spider-Man: Life Story Offers a Fascinating Thought Experiment for Peter Parker's Oldest Mantra". io9. Retrieved April 29, 2019.

Stephen Law (520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christian apologists and theologians. He developed the Evil God Challenge thought experiment. The Philosophy Files 1 (2000) ISBN 1-84255-053-5 The Philosophy Files

Przekładaniec (1,219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

one thing until it turns into a different thing Ship of Theseus, a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of

Ken Levine (game developer) (1,945 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Brian (October 9, 2013). "Ken Levine on his secret post-BioShock 'thought experiment'". Polygon. Retrieved January 10, 2022. Wigham, Chris (July 26, 2011)

No-cloning theorem (2,587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

allow such communication to occur. To see this, consider the EPR thought experiment, and suppose quantum states could be cloned. Assume parts of a maximally

Type physicalism (2,281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

objection comes from Frank Jackson (1982) in the form of the Mary's room thought experiment. Let us suppose, Jackson suggests, that a particularly brilliant super-scientist

Computational theory of mind (2,601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

computational theory of mind comes from philosopher John Searle. In his thought experiment known as the Chinese room, Searle attempts to refute the claims that

Nuclear holocaust (4,901 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Terrorism involving nuclear material or weapons Silurian hypothesis – Thought experiment to assess ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization

InterWorking Labs (1,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

testing. The Maxwell products are named after Maxwell's Demon, a thought experiment by 19th-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell’s Demon demonstrated

Quantum vacuum state (2,750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

temperature to absolute zero, one produces in a Gedankenexperiment [thought experiment] the quantum vacuum state." According to Fowler & Guggenheim (1939/1965)

Fish! Philosophy (1,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adding: To grasp just how presumptuous Fish! really is, just try a thought experiment: imagine management’s reaction if the circumstances were reversed

Popper's experiment (3,523 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the 'observer'. While the EPR argument was always meant to be a thought experiment, put forward to shed light on the intrinsic paradoxes of QM, Popper

The Devil Judge (6,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

America treating doctors' advice as fake news, he decided to do a "thought experiment" similar to Black Mirror and V for Vendetta about what the world of

Attributes of God in Christianity (3,782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contradiction is known as the problem of evil. The evil God challenge is a thought experiment that explores whether the hypothesis that God might be evil has symmetrical

Jeremy Waldron (1,532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

non-religious and non-Kantian concept of human dignity, based on a thought experiment of leveling up all human beings to the high rank of nobility or aristocracy

Northwest Passage (Fringe) (2,186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

breakdown at the supermarket "came largely out of nowhere. It was a thought experiment that took on a life of its own." Miller continued that at the time

Probability amplitude (3,446 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"Momentum Transfer to a Free Floating Double Slit: Realization of a Thought Experiment from the Einstein-Bohr Debates" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. 111

The Life You Can Save (2,039 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

also have over $1m of annualised pledges already committed. Singer's thought-experiment about the drowning child featured in the book formed the basis of

Anthology of Interest I (1,445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ambition. On the whole, 'Anthology' plays out like a moderately engaging thought experiment; certainly not a complete waste, but nothing that justifies the existence

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artificial intelligence known as the Turing test and the Chinese Room Thought Experiment, respectively, in the chapter titled "What's Wrong with Building Replicants"

Artificial intelligence (21,858 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

room argument: Searle (1980). Searle's original presentation of the thought experiment. Searle (1999). Discussion: Russell & Norvig (2021, pp. 985) McCorduck

Slender Man (6,187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(21 August 2013). "How the Internet's creepiest meme mutated from thought experiment to Hollywood blockbuster". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original

Chad Orzel (800 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?,Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics,Einstein's brilliant mistake: Entangled states

Reversible computing (2,372 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics Maxwell's demon – Thought experiment of 1867 Reverse computation Reversible cellular automaton – Cellular

Identity of indiscernibles (2,101 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an argument, a fallacious use of this principle Ship of Theseus – Thought experiment about identity over time Structural type system – Class of type systems

Minima Moralia (951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

had produced fascism, reasoning possibly inspired by Nietzsche's thought experiment of the eternal recurrence. Redemption would be a final break with

Big Book (115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(award), a Russian literary award for best prose in Russian Big Book (thought experiment), involving ethics developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Big Book (Alcoholics

Art (14,191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

value of Hirst's and Emin's work. In 1998, Arthur Danto, suggested a thought experiment showing that "the status of an artifact as work of art results from

Derek Parfit (3,872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

barely worth living.": 388 Parfit illustrates this with a simple thought experiment: imagine a choice between two possible futures. In A, 10 billion people

Philosophical interpretation of classical physics (959 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an account for measuring devices to be used at that scale. The key thought experiment in this regard is known as Heisenberg's microscope. The problem for

Gene-centered view of evolution (3,858 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

— Dawkins, 1982, chapter 3 Green-beard effects gained their name from a thought-experiment first presented by Bill Hamilton and then popularized and given its

Starstruck (company) (297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Retrieved 2020-12-09. Phil Salin ... a cofounder of StarStruck, uses this thought experiment to drive home a main point: A dramatic reduction in the cost of getting

Richard Bentall (1,664 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

patients experiencing an at risk mental state for psychosis. In a 1992 thought experiment, Bentall proposed that happiness might be classified as a psychiatric

Haunter (film) (1,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Nicolas Rapold of The New York Times wrote, "the film's frazzled thought experiment becomes an adequate yarn." Annlee Ellingson of the Los Angeles Times

Georg Henrik von Wright (1,455 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

60, 1996 Viimeisistä ajoista: Ajatusleikki (On the End Times: A Thought Experiment.), in Finnish, 1997 Logiikka ja humanismi (Logic and Humanism), in

Swamp Thing (disambiguation) (187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Swamp Thing, a fictional character in the film Con Air Swampman, a thought experiment in philosophy Swamp (disambiguation) Man-Thing This disambiguation

Better Call Saul (13,738 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

they did, they started considering a spin-off featuring Saul as a thought experiment. With the growth of Saul's character, the writers saw ways to explore

Standard German (3,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

demonym of Frankfurt am Main Gedankenexperiment gedankenexperiment thought experiment Geländesprung geländesprung ski jumping for distance on alpine equipment

Lump of labour fallacy (1,015 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

employer's diminished labour needs. In an editorial in The Economist a thought experiment is proposed in which old people leave the workforce in favour of young

Absent qualia (756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

argument is often criticised due to its abstractility. The zombie thought experiment is intended to challenge the functionalist view of the mind by highlighting

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs (645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

due to a lack of confirming physical evidence, is "essentially a thought experiment", and that the book's "greatest reward" is actually "the gift of perspective"

Novikov self-consistency principle (3,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

avoid the issue of free will by employing a potentially paradoxical thought experiment involving a billiard ball sent back in time through a wormhole. In

Blind men and an elephant (3,690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Theseus, a 2012 Indian philosophical drama named after the eponymous thought experiment, also references the parable. This tale has inspired medical men and

Peter Jackson (8,081 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

World War's end, Peter Jackson has created a visually staggering thought experiment; an immersive deep-dive into what it was like for ordinary British

List of The Hunger Games characters (16,734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

drunk during an assignment to get him to give him all his ideas for a thought experiment, this assignment later morphed into the Hunger Games. Traumatized

Dome (disambiguation) (497 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

designed by ASTRON and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Norton's dome, a thought experiment concerning causality in Newtonian mechanics Dome, colloquial term

Computerchemist (1,136 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Alongside the collaborations, a further two solo albums Parallel Thought Experiment and Where the Clouds Touch the Sky were also released in 2021-2022

Redundancy (engineering) (2,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

version of the Byzantine agreement protocol Two Generals' Problem – Thought experiment Degeneracy – Process in biology Redundancy Management Technique for

Work function (3,583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such as Anderson's rule and the Schottky–Mott rule, are based on the thought experiment of two materials coming together in vacuum, such that the surfaces

Ideasthesia (2,413 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that an amputated or missing limb is attached Philosophical zombie – Thought experiment in philosophy Pictogram – Ideogram that conveys its meaning through

Anne Fausto-Sterling (1,489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a 1993 paper titled "The Five Sexes", Fausto-Sterling laid out a thought experiment considering an alternative model of gender containing five sexes:

Pink Floyd (21,135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

political themes and that of Orwell's Animal Farm. Animals begins with a thought experiment, which asks: "If you didn't care what happened to me. And I didn't

Paper clip (disambiguation) (149 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

paperclip, trading experiment Paperclip maximizer, Nick Bostrom's thought experiment about existential risk of artificial intelligence Universal Paperclips

Schrödinger's paradox (71 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

may refer to two ideas by Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment relating to quantum physics Schrödinger's paradox, the paradox that

Ideasthesia (2,413 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that an amputated or missing limb is attached Philosophical zombie – Thought experiment in philosophy Pictogram – Ideogram that conveys its meaning through

Ship of Harkinian (1,352 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Time. The title of the project is an allusion to the philosophical thought experiment Ship of Theseus, and popular internet memes about The Legend of Zelda

X Development (2,997 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

through total data collection. A spokesperson stated that "This is a thought-experiment by the Design team from years ago that uses a technique known as ‘speculative

Schrödinger's paradox (71 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

may refer to two ideas by Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment relating to quantum physics Schrödinger's paradox, the paradox that

Eleanor Arnason (1,812 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

love was normal and heterosexual love was abnormal, sort of as a thought experiment. And because contemporary Americans have very rigid ideas of what

Venedic language (1,965 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wenedyk Created by Jan van Steenbergen Date 2002 Setting and usage A thought experiment in the alternate history, Ill Bethisad, if Latin had replaced Polish's

A Number (2,315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

philosophical questions without ever feeling didactic. A Number is no cold thought experiment, but a quiet rumination on human nature". Dineen wrote that Salter's

William Bennett (2,310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

go down." Bennett responded to the criticism by saying, in part: A thought experiment about public policy, on national radio, should not have received the

Machine ethics (4,329 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

chatterbot that learned to repeat racist and sexually charged tweets. One thought experiment focuses on a Genie Golem with unlimited powers presenting itself to

Epistemology (13,773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

barn and forms the belief that it is a barn. The idea behind this thought experiment is that this is not knowledge even though the belief is both justified

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (5,118 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

idea. As an attitudinal principle it has often been dealt with as a thought experiment, to see how one would react, or as a sort of ultimate expression of

Civilization (10,431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ability to create civilizations that has emerged on Earth. A recent thought experiment, the silurian hypothesis, however, considers whether it would "be

Arcade Fire (9,268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

throughout the books, the national anthem of the fascist Capitol. So as a thought experiment, we tried to write what that might sound like. It's like the Capitol's

Byzantine fault (3,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

version of the Byzantine agreement protocol Two Generals' Problem – Thought experiment Conflict-free replicated data type – Type of data structure Kirrmann

Natalie Villalobos (649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

she co-led the Signtific Lab, an open source massive multi-player "thought experiment" platform for scientists and technologists to help forecast future

Celtic union (1,081 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

July 23, 2020. Retrieved 2022-06-12. says, Austen Lynch (2021-09-25). "Thought Experiment: A Celtic Union". The Glasgow Guardian. Retrieved 2022-06-12.

Efficient-market hypothesis (5,852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

until the information is no longer useful for trading. Note that this thought experiment does not necessarily imply that stock prices are unpredictable. For

Schrödinger (disambiguation) (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

quantum mechanics. Schrödinger may also refer to: Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment devised by Schrödinger that illustrates what he saw as the problem

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows (2,998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hero-destroying tyrant. The one drawback is that the series feels like a thought experiment and lacks any connection to the very long Peter Parker story that

Left-wing populism (5,795 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Philip (2021). "A People's Tribunate in a Populist Democracy? A Thought Experiment between Republicanism and Populism re-visited.” In: Mayr, Stefan/

List of paradoxes (7,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in which the fluid is at rest. Tachyonic antitelephone: Einstein's thought experiment about how faster-than-light communication could cause a causality

Thermodynamic temperature (13,642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

those due to zero-point energy. Consider the following hypothetical thought experiment, as illustrated in Fig. 2.5 at left, with an atom that is exceedingly

Robert Nozick (3,759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Another intuition pump Nozick proposes is the utility monster, a thought experiment designed to show that average utilitarianism could lead to a situation

Infinite Jest (6,129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Funniest Joke in the World", as well as to "the experience machine", a thought experiment by Robert Nozick. Infinite Jest was marketed heavily, and Wallace

Intentionality (5,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adherents.John Searle argued for this position with the Chinese room thought experiment, according to which no syntactic operations that occurred in a computer

Futurama (12,966 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and attacks him. The run is a reference to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment of quantum mechanics. The series makes passing references to quantum

Mad Men (15,065 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2012. Retrieved June 20, 2012. Fennessey, Sean (March 30, 2015). "Thought Experiment: What If HBO Had Picked Up 'Mad Men'?". Grantland. Archived from the